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Letter to Mother from New Baltimore, Va

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Letter to Mother from New Baltimore, Va

Description: Colyer's Civil War correspondence, chiefly his letters to his parents, siblings, and friends in Chittenango. The letters discuss war, political, and family news and contain detailed factual accounts of the camp life -- rations, barracks, soldiers' finances, conscripts and substitutes, desertions, drinking, courts martial, hospital, prisons, demobilization, etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1862 November 12.
Call number: mssHM 28943-29056
Creator: Colyer, Henry I (approximately 1841-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Clifford Couch Colyer, 1966-1970.
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